Titles for Review
Books | Graphic Novels | Magazines | Zines | Audio | Video | E-Reviews
Books are selected for their potential interest to a broad spectrum of libraries. Only a few areas of publishing fall outside LJ's scope: textbooks, children's books, very technical or specialized works (particularly those directed at a professional audience), and books in languages other than English. We do, however, consider bilingual editions. Books previously published abroad are eligible if they are being released here for the first time and have a U.S. distributor.
We prefer to receive materials three to four months in advance of publication date since our primary goal is prepublication review. We will accept galleys, page proofs, or manuscripts (only one copy is necessary). Those publishers (small houses) that cannot supply advance galleys may submit finished books, but these should be sent as early as possible with the words "In lieu of galleys" and the publication date affixed to the cover. We generally avoid reviewing books later than date of publication, though we do make exceptions for reference and heavily illustrated works—if F & Gs are not available, send the finished book as early as possible.
Address materials to:
Book Review Editor
Library Journal
360 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010
Include the following information: Author, title; name, address, and telephone number of publisher; date of publication; price; number of pages; and ISBN and LC numbers if available. Please indicate whether any illustrations, an index, or bibliography will be included; also include a brief description of the book, its intended audience, and information on the author's background.
Regarding review status: LJ does not enter submissions into the book review database upon arrival; galleys and books are entered only if they are assigned for review. Review or receipt queries may be sent to LJBookReview@reedbusiness.com. Please indicate author, title, publication date, and a brief description taken from the catalog or press release and also indicate whether your title was sent in lieu of galleys. You will receive a response if we did not receive the title in question or once a review decision has been made. Given the volume of queries, please contact us about your most important books only.
For regular updates about our upcoming reviews, please subscribe to our LJ Review Alert service and a list of books to be reviewed in a given issue will be emailed to you a month in advance of issue date. To subscribe to this free service, please visit https://www.libraryjournal.com/subscribe.asp?screen=pi9 and choose "LJReview Alert."
Please follow up review galleys with a copy of the bound book. Neither books nor galleys can be returned.
Graphic novels (GN) (including manga and other illustrated narrative titles) are reviewed in the Graphic Novels column in the print LJ six times/year. Additionally, GN reviews appear weekly in our web-only, freely-accessible Xpress Reviews section. For review consideration, advance copies are not necessary; we prefer to review from the finished copy when available (unless the galley is very high-quality). We do not review comics, only hardback or paperback compilations. Please send titles for review consideration as close to the publishing date as possible. Bibliographic information and promotional materials should be included in your package.
Please submit materials:
Heather McCormack
Library Journal
360 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
646-746-6819
hmccormack@reedbusiness.com
The online Magazines column is updated monthly to help librarians decide to which journals and magazines they should subscribe. To submit a recently launched or redesigned magazine for review, please send one or two different issues of your publication, along with any available press materials, to:
Anna Katterjohn
Library Journal
360 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
646-746-6818
anna.katterjohn@reedbusiness.com
Zines are reviewed in the Zines column in the print magazine 4 times each year. For review consideration, please send one copy along with information like the year it was produced, price, creator’s name, ordering/contact information, web address, and distros that stock your zine. For the Zines column, we do not consider publications that have a masthead, an ISSN, or a circulation of more than 2000 (consider submitting these for the Magazines column, guidelines above), and creators must do much of the production and distribution themselves and may not charge significantly more than the zines cost to produce.
Please submit relevant materials to:
Anna Katterjohn
Library Journal
360 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
646-746-6818
anna.katterjohn@reedbusiness.com
Please submit CDs for review as soon as they are available—whenever possible, at least two months prior to their release. Promotional material must accompany each audiobook, noting publication date, number of discs, number of hours, whether abridged/unabridged, narrator, category, ISBN, and price. Please also specify whether an MP3-CD and/or digital downloadable edition is available.
Submit materials to:
Raya Kuzyk, Media Editor
Library Journal
360 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010
646-746-6805
raya.kuzyk@reedbusiness.com
VIDEO
DVDs are eligible for review in LJ if they are designed for an adult audience (public and academic) and were produced no earlier than 2008. Complete editions of appropriate releases should be sent along with information on the program's running time, distribution (name, address, phone, URL), all price information (MSR, rental, shipping/handling, public performance, etc.), ISBN or UPC, and closed-captioning if available.
Please submit materials to:
Bette-Lee Fox
Video Reviews
Library Journal
360 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
646-746-6802
bl.fox@reedbusiness.com
For review consideration of online databases, please provide further information about your product to Cheryl LaGuardia at claguard@fas.harvard.edu and Mirela Roncevic at mroncevic@reedbusiness.com.